{"id":153011,"date":"2026-01-28T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153011\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:58:10","slug":"sacramento-takes-on-philadelphia-on-6-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento takes on Philadelphia on 6-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings<\/a> (12-36, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (25-21, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Sacramento aims to stop its six-game skid with a win over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The 76ers have gone 13-13 at home. Philadelphia ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference with 12.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Andre Drummond<\/a> averaging 3.5.<\/p>\n

The Kings are 3-20 on the road. Sacramento has a 3-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The 76ers average 116.6 points per game, 4.2 fewer points than the 120.8 the Kings give up. The Kings average 10.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 fewer made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the 76ers give up.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Tyrese Maxey<\/a> is scoring 29.2 points per game with 4.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists for the 76ers. Joel Embiid<\/a> is averaging 20.9 points and 6.1 rebounds while shooting 52.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> is averaging 19.1 points and 3.9 assists for the Kings. Russell Westbrook<\/a> is averaging 18.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 4-6, averaging 114.4 points, 41.0 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 10.4 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.4 points per game.<\/p>\n

Kings: 4-6, averaging 113.2 points, 42.4 rebounds, 26.4 assists, 5.9 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 76ers: Charles Bassey<\/a>: out (personal), Quentin Grimes: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

Kings: Keegan Murray: out (ankle), Malik Monk: out (ankle), Zach LaVine: out (back).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings (12-36, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (25-21, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-153011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}